HUGON, EDOUARD. – Dominican philosopher and theologian, born at Lafarre (Haute Loire) on 25 August 1867, died in Rome on 7 February 1929. In 1885 he was at Rijckholt (Holland), where he made his solemn profession on 13 January 1890; he taught philosophy and theology at Rosary-Hill (New York), Poitiers, Angers, and Rijckholt. In 1909 he was called to Rome to found, with Frs. Szabó, Pégues, and Garrigou-Lagrange, the Pontifical Athenaeum Angelicum, and for twenty years he served there as professor and consultant for the Eastern Church, examiner of the clergy, and member of the Roman Academy of St Thomas.
Hugon was a complete theologian, both in his mastery of the various sacred sciences and in the balance between mind and heart: alongside the scholastic exposition of theses, the *corollarium pietatis*. His philosophical-theological teaching shone for its ease, clarity, and doctrinal certainty, strictly atomistic in method.
Among his numerous publications, two textbooks for philosophy and theology stand out, which guided many young ecclesiastics: *Cursus philosophiae thomisticae ad theologiae doctoris Ang. propaedentius* (3rd ed., 6 vols., Paris 1946) and *Tractatus dogmatici* (revised ed., 8 vols., Paris 1953–1954). Among his popular monographs are: *Le Mystère de la Rédemption* (9th ed., 11 vols.), *La Sainte Eucharistie* (7th ed., 11 vols.), and *Les vingt-quatre thèses thomistes* (8th ed., 11 vols., 1938). He also contributed a series of articles to the journals *Angelicum*, *Vie spirituelle*, and *Revue thomiste*.